The sedan Vortex Estina (former Chery Fora), which the Taganrog car plant has produced under its own brand since August, 2008, following the results of this year can become the leader in the segment of the Chinese cars.

The Vsevolozhsk plant Ford which in connection with double fall of the Russian car market since June has produced cars in the regime of a four-day working week and since September has passed to work in two shifts, in December-January will begin to stay apart from the short working regime stage-by-stage.

In the program presented by Ministry of industry and trade for recycling of cars in 2010 dealers noticed essential defect: cashing in of certificates risks to become rather difficult and long procedure which can occupy about one and a half month.

Ministry of industry and trade published the project of amendments to the technical regulations “Safety of wheel vehicles” in which among others it is offered to remove restrictions for the structure of an identification number for the second-hand "Japanese" cars imported to the territory of Russia by private people.

The final variant of the support and development program of AVTOVAZ will be discussed with Renault-Nissan during the visit of the prime minister of Russia Vladimir Putin to France on November, 27th, 2009, Igor Shuvalov, the first vice-premier informed.

The number of foreign cars in Russia, being on guarantees (aged before two years), by 2011 will decrease by 40% - from 4.74 (at the beginning of 2009) to 2.3 million cars. Now about 3.3 million cars are registered in our country, which are on guarantee.

The German auto company Volkswagen discusses a question about independent import of luxury cars Bentley, Bugatti and Lamborghini to Russia, Martin Jahn, the deputy of the general director of the company “Volkswagen Group Rus”, said.

Ministry of economic development and trade prepared and plans to bring a bill in the government, regulating purchases of state corporations, natural monopolies and organizations of housing and utilities infrastructure, Anna Popova, the deputy minister, said.

From the moment of liberalization of the program of preferential auto crediting in which result restrictions for the size of the capital for banks-participants of the program have been cancelled, department has received about 44 demands from the banks, wishing to participate in it and demands continue to come.

Three large Russian auto manufacturers, AVTOVAZ, GAZ and Sollers, prepared the letter addressed to Vladimir Putin, the prime minister of Russia, in which they suggest to introduce restrictions on sale of cars of the GM Uzbekistan production (Daewoo Matiz and Nexia) in Russia.

The Ulyanovsk auto plant has received net loss according to RAS in the amount of 229.29 million rubles for nine months of 2009 in comparison with net profit in 795.691 million rubles for the similar period of last year.

The volume of import of new cars to Russia following the results of 10 months of 2009 has fallen by 70.5% up to 415 thousand units in comparison with the similar period of last year (1.4 million cars).

Yesterday there was opening of manufacture of diesel engines at the joint Russian-American enterprise “Kamminz-Kama” in Naberezhnye Chelny in the presence of the prime minister of Russia, Vladimir Putin.

Following the results of nine months of 2009 AVTOVAZ has received pure loss according to RAS in the amount of 19.7 billion rubles against profit in the amount of 834 million rubles for the similar period of 2008.